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Texas executed a legally and factually innocent person

Posted: Thu Aug 12, 2010 3:27 pm
by brian
July 23, 2010: In a a follow-up on the Willingham Case covered in the McHenry forum on Sept 5, 2010 and Dec 2, 2010
Where “Texas could become the first state to acknowledge officially that, since the advent of the modern judicial system, it had carried out the ‘execution of a legally and factually innocent person’”
Texas state board says arson investigators used flawed science
A Texas state board said Friday that arson investigators used flawed science but were not negligent in an investigation that led to a controversial 2004 execution. The panel also said that investigators did not commit misconduct. Cameron Todd Willingham was executed in 2004, 13 years after a fire killed his three daughters. Prosecutors argued that Willingham deliberately set the 1991 blaze -- but three reviews of the evidence by outside experts have found the fire should not have been ruled arson.
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